Velocity 2011

Santa Clara, CA - June 15

GothamJS

New York, NY - July 9

Yehuda Katz giving a talk "The Fallacy of Microlibs." He will provide an alternative approach to thinking about developing large JavaScript applications, the approach the SproutCore team is using for developing SproutCore 2.0.

IRC and Gitter are a great way to get in-touch with other SproutCore developers as well as getting help for any issues that you experience.
To connect using Gitter you can use both the web browser via the link above as well as dedicated Gitter apps, which can be downloaded from the Gitter website.
Below, you will
find a variety of free and paid applications to connect to the IRC servers. If you need a primer on using IRC, we recommend the following article
on Nettuts+:
IRC is Back: Here’s Your Starter Guide.

Mac

Colloquy - A free IRC client with a clean interface designed specifically for OS X.

Join Us for Our Weekly Meetings

SproutCore holds a weekly meeting on Wednesday mornings at 10:00am Central time (8:00am Pacific and 11:00am Eastern) where all members of the
SproutCore community are encouraged to attend!

These meetings are currently held via IRC and their purpose is three-fold:

Team Collaboration - SproutCore's contributors are spread out across the globe and generally have full or part-time jobs in addition to
their SproutCore-related responsibilies. The weekly meetings help keep all contributors knowledgeable about, and involved with, the plans and
efforts of the rest of the team.

Community Transparency - SproutCore is a project that believes very strongly in the fundamentals of open-source technology and
particularly, transparency within the community. The meetings are hosted on IRC so that any member may join and keep up-to-date with the current
timeline plans, what features are being actively developed, and anything else regarding the SproutCore framework.

Community Involvement - Finally, the meetings are a great way for the community to get involved! Project leaders regularly discuss
areas where the community can help and any member may request that a topic be added to the agenda so that they can pitch their ideas or have their
voice heard. *If you have an idea that you would like to share, simply reply to one of the reminder e-mails and ask that your topic be added to the
next meeting.

If you are interested in helping contribute to SproutCore, or if you just want to get to know the team behind it a bit better, please join us!

* Topic requests may be rejected or postponed if they are substantially off-topic or if the meeting agenda is already full. Meetings are
generally kept to roughly 1 hour so as not to consume immense amounts of the contributors' time.